Chief test pilot flies rocket-powered spacecraft Full story: http://bit.ly/1FrG5jy
Fighter jets and moon missions set a young David Mackay on course to fly spaceplanes for Virgin – but tragedy is always just around the cornerAuthor(s): No creator set

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Music and the Brain: Depression and Creativity Symposium Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center at the Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine, convened a discussion of the
effects of depression on creativity. Joining Jamison were two
distinguished colleagues from the fields of neurology and
neuropsychiatry, Dr. Terence Ketter and Dr. Peter Whybrow. The Music and the Brain series is co-sponsored by the Library's Music Division and Author(s): No creator set

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Encouraging Discussion Workshop 2 Introduced by Dr. Langer, this program concentrates on discussion and its importance in helping engaged readers go further in the text. The on–screen teachers talk about ways to encourage whole–class and small–group discussion, the importance of asking the right questions to provoke thoughtful discussion, and making the discussion inclusive, including both talkative and reticent students. Their discussion is punctuated by visits to their classrooms, where discussion flourishes.Author(s): No creator set

Critics who have studied Marlowe's work have for the most part been inclined to take on trust the picture of him provided by Kyd, Baines, Beard and others, and to read the plays as statements of the author's own radical beliefs. But there is an obvious problem with this approach to Marlowe's work: we simply don't know whether these hostile accounts of his opinions are accurate or, as seems likely, deeply compromised by their writers' own motives and circumstances.

How Physicians View the Issue: Parents Who Refuse to Vaccinate a Child This program focuses on a variety of issues related to parental rights regarding childhood vaccinations, including the origins of immunization hesitancy, and the medical community's response to the parent who refuses to vaccinate their child. Edgar Marcuse, professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses the nature and scope of immunization hesitancy and vaccine refusal in the United States. Dr. Marcuse identifies societal factors contributing to immunization hesitancy anAuthor(s): No creator set

The EU as presently constituted is itself a product of globalisation, and here the impact of globalisation has been heightened by the central institutions of the EU directly encouraging regionalism and cross-border cooperation between regions to further its own political and economic integration.

Regionalism has also been indirectly boosted by other EU policies, particularly the development of the Single European Market since the late 1980s

The World Wide Web contains millions of web pages. Many of these pages are impossible to read, even though many existing web pages will reference them: your browser will usually return with some message such as ‘Error 404 Page not Found’ when you try to access them. Error 404 is a standard message returned by web servers when a non-existent page is accessed. It is also the telephone area code for Atlanta in the United States; you will occasionally hear technical staff referring to non-exi

This free course provided an introduction to studying Environment & Development. It took you through a series of exercises designed to develop your approach to study and learning at a distance, and helped to improve your confidence as an independent learner.

New archaeological findings on Stonehenge Burials This is a video about new archaeological findings in Stonehenge. Radiocarbon dating of human remains indicates that the mysterious stone monument was used as a cemetery longer than previously thought.Author(s): No creator set

Huntington's disease is a good example of a late-onset disorder because it is fatal, non-treatable, relatively frequent and has a strong genetic element that can be tested for. There are others that fall into a similar category, i.e. mainly relate to a single gene, such as adult polycystic kidney disease. The issues surrounding late-onset multifactorial diseases, such as diabetes and breast cancer, will be dealt with separately. To date, relatively few diseases that fall into both these categ

In the 1960s critics of the quality of care for older people, such as Peter Townsend, The Last Refuge (1962), and Barbara Robb, Sans Everything (1967), added their voices to growing criticisms of institutional care, not only for older people but for users of mental health services and people with learning difficulties too. Government had already begun to take account of its responsibilities for the dire state and cost of many of these institutions and in a famous speech in 1961

America's Cup Comes to San Francisco: Technology Under Sail [Recorded: August 27, 2013]
This is the 2013 "Summer of Racing" with some of the most sophisticated technology ever deployed in both America's Cup racing and for the tele­vised coverage of the race itself. The Museum is excited to host this special panel just before the America's Cup finals in September. Our guests include Ian "Fresh" Burns, Design Team Member and Matthew Mason, Grinder, both from Oracle Team USA Racing, and the man behind the technol­ogy driving the race, Stan Honey, DirectorAuthor(s): No creator set

Panel Discussion: Women Shaping Our World: Architecture, Gender, and Space The past decade has seen an unprecedented rise in interest in architecture and design, in both the public and private realms. In this discussion, focused on the intersection of architecture and gender, four women prominent in the architectural field will share their views on the social and political implications of their work, and on the role women play in shaping the culture at large.
John Cary, Editor of PublicInterestDesign.org, moderates a panel that include Anne Fougeron, Principal, FougerAuthor(s): No creator set